[Cialug] SCO's not dead yet

[Theron Conrey]

Right, So I'd look at it as a way (considering the final cost of course) to keep alive and utilize your existing (and expensive) IT infrastructure and help increase the odds of a future migration path as opposed to an all out gut-and-replace down the line.  Buying what was left (again cost) even at millions of dollars, may save well over that amount in the long run.  Turning that code over, (cost sharing?) to a large Linux stakeholder, and getting some agreement to provide an upgrade path, would benefit the company financially, and allow for a smoother migration, especially if people could write to the existing code base.

But, coming down out of la-la land, I realize it would be hard to sell it.  But heh, McD dresses up tubers better than anyone else so anything is possible.

-Theron

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Dave J. Hala Jr.
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 2:46 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: RE: [Cialug] SCO's not dead yet

That depends. Could you buy SCO for less than what a migration would cost? If I was an old school corporate guy, its unlikely that I'd be thinking about buying SCO and open sourcing their stuff so that I
(McDonalds) would benefit.

If they opened up SCO's stuff would the open source community improve it? Would it benefit McDonalds? How long would it take?

If you did buy them, as a failing company, you'd probably consider it a stop-gap measure to buy you some time before you did the migration anyway.

I just can't believe that McDonalds corporate would take that kind of chance, but who knows?  I just can't see quarter pounders made from penguin meat as a profitable undertaking.




On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:35 -0500, Theron Conrey wrote:
> I'd argue that point.  I'm pretty sure that a company as big as McD would benefit from just buying the remaining bits of software that SCO actually owns that runs their environment rather then migrating.  There's a reason that Sun purchased star office (and then began open sourcing) rather than deploy windows office .  However, a fantastic kicking would be delivered if McD (or another company) bought what was left and open sourced whatever code they could find that was worth anything.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Dave J. Hala Jr.
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 2:01 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Cialug] SCO's not dead yet
>
> Why would you buy them? It would be cheaper for McDonalds to switch to Windows then buy SCO. Why continue the fight? They've obviously been beaten -there's no "revenue" to be gained.
>
> :)  Dave
>
> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 18:46 +0000, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> > I would be concerned about a SCO-friendly company with deep pockets
> > buying them and continuing the fight.  You have to wonder how many
> > people are left at the company and what the SCO-faithful still look
> > like.  Article Says McDonald's is a client.  Why don't they buy them?
> >
> > -Nate
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan C. Bailey [mailto:jbailey at co.marshall.ia.us]
> > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 1:30 PM
> > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> > Subject: Re: [Cialug] SCO's not dead yet
> >
> > I just read that and thought of Monty Python...
> >
> > "Bring out yer dead!"
> >
> >
> >
> > -Jon
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Champion" <dchampion at visionary.com>
> > To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> > Sent: Monday, October 8, 2007 1:21:59 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
> > Subject: [Cialug] SCO's not dead yet
> >
> > Just FYI, SCO isn't dead yet...
> >
> > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBa
> > si
> > c&arti
> > cleId=304668&source=NLT_OS&nlid=41
> >
> > Darl: "It's like the Linux faithful are lined up for the bad news.
> > They've got their confetti ready to throw, and everybody's all excited."
> >
> > Anyone know where I can get some good confetti?
> >
> > -dc
> >
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